Albertson v. City of Jesup

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “sovereign immunity is a threshold issue that the trial court was required to address before reaching the merits of any other argument.”
• holding that “sovereign immunity is a threshold issue that the trial court was required to address before reaching the merits of any other argument”
• party seeking benefit of the waiver has to establish waiver and thus trial court's subject matter jurisdiction
• “under Georgia law, municipal corporations shall not be liable for failure to perform or for errors in performing their legislative or judicial powers”
• Municipalities have sovereign immunity against claims of negligence in performing, or failing to perform, their governmental functions.
• Municipalities have sovereign immunity against claims of negligence in performing, or failing to perform, their governmental functions.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).